Carlo Acutis-کارلو آکوتیس

The call for him to be beatified began not long after Acutis's death.[4] The campaign gained momentum in 2013 after he was named a Servant of God, the first stage on the path towards sainthood.[3][19] The Lombardy Episcopal Conference approved the petition for the official canonization cause to proceed at a meeting in 2013.[19] The opening of the diocesan investigation was held on 15 February 2013, with Cardinal Angelo Scola inaugurating the process, and concluding it on 24 November 2016. The formal introduction to the cause took place on 13 May 2013, and Acutis became titled a "Servant of God". Pope Francis next confirmed his life as one of heroic virtue on 5 July 2018, and declared him Venerable.[20]

On 14 November 2019, the Vatican's Medical Council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints expressed a positive opinion about a miracle in Brazil attributed to Acutis's intercession.[21][22] Luciana Vianna had taken her son, Mattheus, who was born with a pancreatic defect that made eating difficult, to a prayer service. Beforehand, Vianna had already prayed a novena asking for the teenager Acutis's intercession. During the service her son had simply asked that he should not "throw up as much". Immediately following the service, Mattheus told his mother that he felt healed and asked for solid food when he came home. Until then he had been on an all-liquid diet.[23][24] After a detailed investigation, Pope Francis confirmed the miracle's authenticity in a decree on 21 February 2020, leading to Acutis's beatification.

In early October along the pristine medieval streets of Assisi, a city ubiquitous with references to St. Francis, posters bore the image of a different modern saint-in-the-making: Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian tech whiz.

Before his death from leukemia in 2006, Acutis was an average teen with an above-average knack for computers. He put that knowledge to use by creating an online database of eucharistic miracles around the world.

For Acutis’ mother, Antonia Salzano, the heartbreak that all parents experience over the loss of a child has been mingled with serenity and joy as she prepared to see her son beatified Oct. 10 at the Basilica of St. Francis.

“It’s unusual for parents to (be present at) the beatification of their son or daughter,” Salzano told Catholic News Service Oct. 9. “It’s very unusual because normally it takes a long time. But instead, for Carlo it took 14 years to have the beatification.”

Acutis’ beatification, she said, is “an important step for us because we have so many devotees of Carlo all around the world. I think it’s a big sign for them, a great consolation.”

“It’s very, very important that we have this recognition from the church,” Salzano added.

As part of the sainthood process, Acutis’ body was exhumed and transferred to a place suitable for public veneration, the Shrine of the Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.

Placed in a glass case, his body was dressed in jeans and a track suit jacket — the attire he was accustomed to wearing and what is seen in many of the photos taken of him during his life.

“He makes himself very much close to me. He gives a lot of signs. Sometimes I dream of Carlo, sometimes I hear inspiration. And, also, he gives a lot of signs to a lot of people around the world. I mean, I don’t really feel the lack of Carlo because he’s a silent presence, but he makes himself heard through many people,” she said.

While looking at his body makes it seem almost like he is still alive, Salzano told CNS she didn’t have “a particular reaction” to seeing his body again because she feels she has ” a real, spiritual relationship with my son.”

Carlo also worried that often-obsessive reverence for movie and music stars were becoming “a sort of idolatry,” she said. “Carlo used to say, ‘You see queues in front of a football match or an actor or rock singer, but you don’t see a queue for the tabernacle where there is the real presence of God, God that lives among us.’”

Carlo Acutis

He was educated in Milan at the Jesuit Instituto Leone XIII high school. On the social side, Acutis would worry about friends of his whose parents were divorcing and would invite them to his home to support them. He defended disabled peers at school when bullies mocked them. Outside school, he did voluntary work with the homeless and destitute. He also liked films, comic editing and playing PlayStation video games. Although he greatly enjoyed travel, the town of Assisi remained a particular favorite.[4]

Those around him considered him a "computer geek" on account of his passion and skill with computers and the internet.[4][3] Acutis applied himself to creating a website dedicated to cataloguing each reported Eucharistic miracle in the world, miracolieucaristici.org. He completed this in 2005, having started compiling the catalogue at the age of eleven. He admired Giacomo Alberione's initiatives to use the media to evangelize and proclaim the Gospel and aimed to do likewise with the website he had created.

When he developed leukemia, he offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Catholic Church, saying: "I offer to the Lord the sufferings that I will have to undergo for the Pope and for the Church."[11] He had asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages to the sites of all the known Eucharistic miracles in the world, but his declining health prevented this from happening. The doctors treating his final illness had asked him if he was in great pain to which he responded that "there are people who suffer much more than me".[4] He died on October 10 2006 at 6:45 AM from the M3 subtype of fulminating acute promyelocytic leukemia. He was buried in Assisi in accordance with his wishes.[3][12]

Acutis's mother, Antonia, is said to attribute to his intercession the fact that, at the age of 44, she gave birth to twins, born exactly four years to the day after his death.[13] Following the Catholic Church's recognition of a miracle in 2020, attributed to Acutis, Antonia told the press that her son had appeared to her in dreams saying that he will not only be beatified but also canonised a saint in the future.[14]

Carlo Acutis

Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an English-born Italian Catholic youth and amateur computer programmer,[3] who is best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them onto a website, miracolieucaristici.org, which he created before his death from leukemia.[3] He was noted for his cheerfulness, computer skills, and deep devotion to the Eucharist, which becomes a core theme of his life.[4] He was beatified on 10 October 2020.

Carlo Acutis was born in London on May 3 1991 to a wealthy Italian family.[4][5][6] His baptism took place on May 18 1991 in the church of Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea.[7] His parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, who were not especially religious, had worked in London and Germany, finally settled in Milan in September 1991, not long after their first son's birth.[3][4][8] In 1995, when Acutis was four years old, his maternal grandfather died and was said to have appeared to him in a dream asking to be prayed for. When the child evinced a precocious interest in religious practice, his questions were answered by the family's Polish baby-sitter.[9][10] Three years later he requested to receive his First Communion at the age of seven. After consulting a prelate and providing instruction, the family arranged this at the convent of Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus. After that he made the effort, either before or after Mass, to reflect before the tabernacle. Acutis became a frequent communicant and would make a weekly confession. He is said to have had several models as guides for his life, especially Francis of Assisi,[3] as well as Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Dominic Savio, Tarcisius, and Bernadette Soubirous.[3]

Carlo Acutis

In many ways, Carlo Acutis was a typical teenager. He loved his PlayStation and making videos of his dogs. He favored Nikes and jeans, and he had a cellphone and an email address.

But in one significant respect, Carlo — who was just 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006 — stands out from his peers: He is on his way to becoming the first millennial to be recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Carlo, who lived in Milan, was beatified, or declared “blessed” by the pope, on Saturday after a miracle was attributed to him earlier this year. The ceremony, in Assisi, Italy, was the second-to-last step before Carlo can be canonized as a saint.

Since his death, Carlo has become known in some Catholic circles as the patron saint of the internet for his facility with computers and his early and enthusiastic embrace of the web, which he used as an expression of his Catholic faith.

“Carlo was the light answer to the dark side of the web,” his mother said, adding that some admirers have called him an “influencer for God.”

Ms. Acutis said that people from all over the world had told her about medical miracles, including cures for infertility and cancer, that happened after they prayed to her son. In February, Pope Francis attributed the unexplainable healing of a boy with a malformed pancreas to Carlo after the child came in contact with one of his shirts.

Carlo sought ways of helping poor, older and disabled people, and refugees. On the way to school, he would stop to chat with people about their problems, she said. He took meals and sleeping bags to homeless people and knew many by name.

واتیکان

کوچک‌ترین کشور جهان که خود درون پایتخت کشوری دیگر جای گرفته است. واتیکان، کشوری که تنها از یک شهر تشکیل شده، مرکز فعالیت کلیسای کاتولیک‌های جهان به شمار می‌رود. این کشور در نتیجه‌ی توافقنامه‌ی لاتران بین سریر مقدس و ایتالیا در ۱۱ فوریه ۱۹۲۹ استقلال پیدا کرد. کشور واتیکان سیتی که همچنین با نام سریر مقدس شناخته می‌شود، محل اقامت پاپ، رهبر کاتولیک‌های جهان است. 

پایتخت کشور واتیکان شهر واتیکان است. تنها شهری در جهان که درون یک شهر دیگر قرار دارد. گیج‌کننده است؟ سریر مقدس کوچک‌ترین دولت مستقل در جهان است که مساحت تقریبی ۴۴ هکتار را دربر گرفته و تنها حدود ۸۰۰ نفر جمعیت دارد. طول شهر ۰.۶ مایل (۱٫۰۵ کیلومتر) و عرض آن ۰.۵ مایل (۰٫۸۵ کیلومتر) است؛ مجموع خط مرزی نیز ۲ مایل (۳٫۲ کیلومتر) است. واتیکان سیتی- مکانی که طلوع و غروب خورشید در آن از بالای گنبد کلیسای سن پیترو می‌گذرد

• این شهر که مساحتی ۴۴ هکتاری (۰.۴۴کیلومتر) را در بر می‌گیرد جمعیتی حدود ۸۱۲ نفر ( آمار تا دسامبر ۲۰۱۱) دارد.
• [ کشور واتیکان] دارای سرویس پست و تلگراف ویژه خویش است و تمبرهای خود را چاپ و بفروش می رساند. علاوه براین ، مسکوکات واتیکان ، درایتالیا آزادانه بکار می رود و واتیکان مالک ایستگاه قطار خود نیز هست .
• در واتیکان از سیستم تلفن و پست انحصاری و کاملاً مستقل استفاده می‌شود و خطوط اینترنتی آن نیز در دسترس همه‌است.
• واتیکان کشور بسیار ثروتمندی است و دلیل آن نیز موقعیت خاص کلیسای کاتولیک است. به طور کلی کلیساها در آمدهای بسیار زیادی دارند. طبق آمار، در سال 2000 میلادی، درآمد کلیساها در سطح جهان – تنها از ناحیة اخذ وجوهات شرعی مسیحیان از قبیل صدقات، نذورات، کفارات وغیره – بالغ بر 108 میلیارد دلار بوده است، که البته قسمت اعظم این درآمدها به کلیساهای آمریکا با 36 میلیارد دلار اختصاص داشته‌ است. علاوه بر این، در کشورهای اروپایی، از آنجا که کلیسا به عنوان یک نهاد خیریه به رسمیت شناخته شده است، مردم می‌توانند درصد مشخصی از مالیات خود را – این رقم در کشورهای مختلف متفاوت است و به طور متوسط 8 در هزار می‌باشد – به حساب کلیسا واریز نمایند. تمامی این درآمدها، جدا از درآمدهایی است که کلیسا‌ها از ناحیة موقوفات خود کسب می‌کنند.
• البته یکی از دلایلی که مردم مبالغ هنگفتی پول در اختیار کلیساها می‌گذارند این است که کلیسا در ارائة بیلان مالی خود شفاف عمل می‌کند و ریز درآمدها و هزینه‌های خود را در اختیار مردم قرار می‌دهد که در آن به تفکیک، هزینه‌های آموزشی، فرهنگی، حمایت از ایتام و نیازمندان، درمانی، تبشیری و غیره مشخص شده است. برای مثال، براساس آمار رسمی واتیکان، 113 هزار مرکز خیریه درمانی، 982 دانشگاه، 200 کالج
• 2 میلیون کشیش، 400 هزار راهب، 800 هزار راهبه و ... تحت پوشش کلیسای کاتولیک در سطح جهان فعالیت می‌کنند. در واقع، سازمان‌دهی بسیار دقیقی در مجموعه کلیسای کاتولیک وجود دارد که بر اساس آن سیاست‌گذاری‌های کلان در واتیکان صورت می‌گیرد و اختیاراتی نیز به حوزه‌های خلیفه‌گری در کشورهای مختلف تفویض شده است. این حوزه‌ها گزارش‌های مستمر، دقیق و مفصلی از فعالیت‌ها و مشکلات خود را به واتیکان ارسال می‌دارند و واتیکان نیز برای حل آن مشکلات به طور بسیار جدی و پیگیر اقدام می‌کند.
• لازم بذکر است که کشور واتیکان در تعیین بسیاری از موارد فرهنگی و سیاسی جهان مسیحیّت نقش مهمی را ایفا می‌نماید و سالانه تعداد زیادی از مردم از این کشور بازدید می‌نمایند. از این جهت بصورت تخصّصی از طریق درآمد جهانگردان مذهبی سالیانه مقدار زیادی درآمد وارد این کشور می‌گردد.
• واتیکان دارای چند گروه و هسته امنیتی است، یکی گارد امنیتی سوییس که نیروی ارتش آن به صورت داوطلبانه از میان شهروندان سوئیسی تشکیل شده‌است و دیگری «corpo della Gendarmeria بایگانی‌شده در ۲۳ اکتبر ۲۰۱۴ توسط Wayback Machine» که نه تنها به عنوان نیروی ارتش منطقه واتیکان محسوب می‌شوند بلکه به عنوان محافظان شخصی پاپ نیز انجام وظیفه می‌کنند.
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• واتیکان که کوچکترین ایالت خودمختار اروپایی محسوب می‌شود، بر روی تپه‌ای به همین نام در شمال غرب شهر بزرگ رم واقع شده و گرداگرد آن را دیواری احاطه کرده‌است تا شهر و به خصوص پاپ اعظم را از خطر حملات خارجی محافظت کند.

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